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IN SEARCH OF OUR SOUL – When Joe Biden launched his bid for the presidency in 2019, he said, “we are in a battle for the soul of the nation,” as he drifted off into a bit of mumbo jumbo about ending the “divisiveness that has marked the last four years.”… read more
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Get used to it. Trumpism is here to stay, whether the 45th president decides to run for reelection in 2024 or not.
The principles of Trumpism really aren’t new, it just took Donald Trump to salvage them from a feckless establishment Republican Party.
I touched on the key elements of Trumpism in my March 1, 2021 blog, in which I recounted Trump’s CPAC speech when he said that liked it, but didn’t come up with it originally.… read more
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How often do we hear the pundits rhetorically ask prior to a major speech, ‘what does he have to say?’
They may be asking it because the speech is being given at a critical point in time – for the president or the country, because of the audience, or for some other esoteric reason.… read more
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In yesterday’s blog post, I wrote of the vindictive nature of President Biden, who is systematically reversing the programs of President Trump that have given us leadership in energy. In this continuation, I discuss other reversals that are taking us backward.
As I noted, I’m certainly not advocating rioting in the streets, but I wonder just how much of President Biden’s outrageous actions we can tolerate.… read more
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IMPRESSED? DON’T BE – The president has no idea of the content in each of these executive orders and memorandums stacked up for his signature. Did you notice that the few members of the media allowed to watch the initials signings, were not permitted to ask for details?
“I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify. Who doesn’t see red and blue states, but a United States. And who will work with all my heart to win the confidence of the whole people.” – Joe Biden, November 7, 2020
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Much has been written about Joe Biden’s first speech; from Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn’s fawning reference to it as “Lincolnesque … exactly what the country needed to hear,” to Daily Wire Ben Shapiro’s remark that he “found the speech so pollyannish in its call for reconciliation as to be risible.”… read more
PARTY PLATFORM A THING OF THE PAST – To use a familiar phrase – back in the day – a party platform, outlining the party’s agenda, was an expected product of the convention; a kind of “to do list” to enable voters to understand the party’s goals. This year it has gone the way of those “smoke-filled rooms.”… read more
AS I PREPARED TO PUBLISH THIS BLOG, the Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Chris Wray held a press conference to alert Americans that Iran and Russia were involved in attempt to spread false information using the social media to upset our election.
Unfortunately, they didn’t provide examples of the misinformation material, which would be helpful to Americans to understand what they should be looking for in their e-mails and Internet browsing.… read more
TWO WOMEN WITH DIFFERING VIEWS – Under the headline, “The GOP’s Wide-Open Arms,” in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, columnist Kimberley A. Strassel wrote how “the Republican Party that presented itself to the nation this week had a wide and welcome look,” as she described the minority voices at the RNC convention.… read more